In an article I found via Doc’s blog,  the complaint/warning is one I’ve experienced firsthand recently as I attempt to move into Movable Type from Radio: The greatest problem, however, is not the limitations of the front end of this software, but rather what goes on behind the curtain, so to speak. As bloggers add content to their sites, the Continue Reading

OK, I found where MT puts the category ID (in the MT_placement tabel under placement_category_id (tested it by doing “SELECT * from mt_placement where placement_entry_id = 1554” and result was placement_category_id = 20, which is the ID for myownbiz. I can’t seem to get the syntax right on doing a join to show me a recordset with mt_entry.entry _id, mt_entry.entry_status, Continue Reading

What’s the best way to get all of my Radio-created STORIES (longer posts) into Movable Type?  Related to this are the many “Shortcuts” used in Radio ,  typically a phrase in quotations,  whn it matches an entry title or a Story Ttitle,  is converted to a link.  I don’t see much hope for this one,  excpet that if someone wrote Continue Reading

Footbridge works ok for new posts,  but I can’t find the answer to why it re-posts a new post for items that I edit in Radio.  For instance,  the previous post about GRUB went up,  and it cross posted to my MT blog.  But when I edited the post and re-posted,  the Radio edit happens ,  but the new version Continue Reading

Howard Rheingold’s Smart Mobs Blog talks about GRUB,  which is a system like SETI at home except it crawls and indeex the Web: LookSmart: Distributed Search. Like SETI@Home, LookSmart’s Grub screensaver runs in the background or when the computer is idle. But instead of searching for signs of intelligent aliens, Grub crawls the Net to build an index for Web Continue Reading

I have a Blogroll in Radio which is in opml. I also have a MYSubscriptions list that I’d like to display in MT. How do I do this? Any veterans of this?

I love how MT mails you when you get a comment! I do wish they had a News Reader! Guess I ‘ll keep using Radio’s reader until I find something independent or goes with MT well.

I do not seem to have any way to get out of April on myblog calendar in MT. In Radio, there was a Previous Month and Next Month text link beneath the calendar. How does one navigate the archives without a link to other months? Did I omit a key step?

Exporting Radio Stories (for importing into Movable Type).  Can this be done?  Anybody point me to some ways to do so?  I have a BUNCH of  stories done in Radio. Another gap in the import into MT:  All the “Shortcut” references,  since they were exported from Radio,  are exported with the Shortcuts in quotes,  and are not converted to links Continue Reading

I relaized that one of my favorite tools in Radio, the “Story”, is something I don’t know how to import, or if it is possible. Since there are txt files for all the stories, seems like there would be a way.

How does one empty the MT database of posts only? I want to re-import my Radio posts using Bill Kearney’s exporter tool (I got it working and saw that it exports categories). Has someone got a script (I use MySQL and dbManager as the admin tool)